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> Someone else tries to weasel a difference between "shall" and "should", I find this sentiment surprising coming from someone pedantic enough to have written:

> Someone else tries to weasel a difference between "shall" and "should", I find this sentiment surprising coming from someone pedantic enough to have written: https://jdebp.uk/FGA/han-unification.html https://jdebp.uk/FGA/han-unification.html https://jdebp.uk/FGA/fga-not-faq.html https://jdebp.uk/FGA/fga-not-faq.html https://jdebp.uk/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html https://jdebp.uk/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html

Joker_vD 3y ago
That "Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no" as the answer" is so tilting... by the way, did you know that in e.g. Russian there are no separate words for "can" and "may", so the taunts of the "Can I please go to the bathroom? — I don't know, can you?" kind are even more infuriating than in English?
- tetromino_ 3y ago
  > in e.g. Russian there are no separate words for "can" and "may" I disagree. For "can", in Russian you would use the verb мочь (in the case of your example: я могу сходить в туалет?, lit. "I can / am able to go to the bathroom?"); for "may", you would use the predicative можно (in the case of your example: можно сходить в туалет?, lit. "is one allowed / is it possible to go to the bathroom?").